The mother of all search engines: Google

http://www.google.com/

Everybody who surfs the internet, for whatever reason it might be, they most probably know about Google. It is one of the fastest search engines available to humans.

Google has a wide range of services other than search engine. But many people probably do not know about them. Being an avid user of Google services (Search, Email, Blog, etc) I can tell almost all Google services are better than others, faster, and innovative. Google comes up with so many services that for the first couple of months it releases the BETA version only. And to top it all – all Google services are free. Here is list of Google services.

Gmail (Google’s Email)
Google entered the email world with a blast by providing 1 GB (currently 2.6+ GB) of space for email and the fastest web based email service - Gmail.

Google News
Google News searches news from almost all major news publications. Fast and organized.

Google Earth
With Google Earth one can literally zoom into any city and get a satellite picture of the earth. Believe it or not but you can actually see the buildings, parks, roads, etc for real.

Google Talk
Google’s answer to Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger, MIRC, and AOL.

Google Desktop
The fastest search engine you can install on your computer. Google Desktop indexes all the files on your computer, which makes the search process fast. Displaying of search result is also amazing and very creative.

Blogger
Google’s blog web site

Hello
Google’s photo management web site.

Picasa
Google’s photo management software.

Google Alert
Receive news and search results via email

Google Answers
Ask a question, set a price, get an answer

Google Blog Search
Find blogs on your favorite topics

Google Book Search
Search the full text of books

Google Directory
Browse the web by topic

Google Groups
Create mailing lists and discussion groups

Google Images
Search for images on the web

Google Labs
Try out new Google products

Google Mobile
Use Google on your mobile phone

Google Scholar
Search scholarly papers

Google Special Searches
Search within specific topics

Google University Search
Search a specific school’s website

Google Web Search Features
Do more with search

Google Translate
View web pages in other languages

Google Toolbar
Add a search box to your browser

Google Code
Download APIs and open source code

Google Pack
A free collection of essential software

Google Pack Screensaver
Photo screensaver

Google Toolbar
Search toolbar

Want to know more or use the above mentioned Google services? Just type the name of the Google Service you want to know more or use at http://www.google.com/ and hit the search button.

A Google user
“There is not a single day when I do not use Google for any of my needs. How do you think I reached Deewane Mastane? Through Google. How do you think I found all those sites where you can hack passwords and awesome stuff? Through Google. Google has many unknown features too (HINT: try clicking on the ‘more’ option at the top when you visit the site). There are also parameters you can place in the search box to help you search better. Go ahead and experiment my friends.”

Posted by: Kuldip Garhwal

Resolve Query - All problems solved

http://www.resolvequery.com/ has been designed to provide reliable information to students and young professionals quickly. ResolveQuery.com believes that students are often faced with numerous choices and taking a correct decision becomes imperative for their long-term success. At these critical junctures, one needs expert advice quickly. Usually, much time is spent in finding the person with the right information. This is where ResolveQuery.com steps in. It immediately brings you in contact with a large set of people from various fields; some of them would be just the right person that you were looking for, your real world role model.

Simple 3 Steps and you are done:-

1) Register
The user needs to do a quick or a detailed registration to use our service.

2) Send your Query
After registration, the user can log into our site, search for experts and submit queries to them.

3) Get the Answer
After a few days, the user can log in again and check the responses sent by the experts.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Translate text and webpages- Altavista Babel Fish

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

AltaVista Babel Fish Translation enables you to translate short passages of text or entire Web sites among 19 pairs of languages.

As an automatic translator, Babel Fish works best when the text you wish to translate uses proper grammar. Slang, misspelled words, poorly placed punctuation and complex or lengthy sentences can all cause a page to be translated incorrectly. Expect Babel Fish to allow you to grasp the general intent of the original, not to produce a polished translation.

To Translate Your Own Text

• Type or paste text into the “Translate a block of text” text box.
• Select the language pair from the list (for example, English to French).
• Click the Translate button.

Babel Fish translates text up to about 150 words at a time

To enter special characters
To enter accented or Russian characters, click the World Keyboard link. An on-screen “virtual keyboard” will appear. You can add characters to the text box by either clicking on the keys or typing with your physical keyboard. The World Keyboard link turns your physical keyboard into the international keyboard of your choice. To return your physical keyboard to normal operation, just click the close box on the virtual keyboard. After you close the keyboard, press Control-k to use it again.

Tips
To enter accents, click first the accent and then the character it appears with. To type capital letters, click the Shift key and then the letter.
Be sure your Windows control panel keyboard is set to English. The World Keyboard does not run on Macintosh computers.

To Translate a Web Page

• Enter the address of the page you wish to translate into the “Translate a Web page” text box.
• Select the language pair from the list (for example, German to English).
• Click the Translate button.

Babel Fish translates individual Web pages up to 10K. When you click a link, the linked page is also automatically translated.

Posted by: Vivek Toshniwal

Ads of the World

http://www.adsoftheworld.com/

‘Ads of the World’ is an advertising library. This website also allows visitors to comment or rate the advertisements posted. ‘Ads of the World’ is open to everybody to post their advertisements and let the world criticize your work.

The ads are organized in three different ways for you to browse:

• Media (Print, TV, Radio, Online, and Ambient)
• Region (International, Africa, Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe)
• Industry (Agency, Alcohol, Automotive, Clothing, Confectionary, Education, Electronics, and the list continues…)

Normal and advanced search is also available for you to search through the advertisement. The latest posts (ads) are displayed on the front page of the website. You need QuickTime to view the TV Commercials.

Posted by: Kuldip Garhwal

What say about Kiss-O-Mania? VirtualKiss

http://www.virtualkiss.com/ is a website totally dedicated to the famous, passionate and desirable thing called KISS. Come on, don’t become a naive. You always wanted to give one to the person you liked or loved the most. Isn’t it. This is a website which allows ou to send a kiss via the net. What if you cannot be there to give a real life kiss or are afraid of doing so. Here you get a chance to express yourself and go ahead!!! Well, it has all types of kisses in store for you. From wet, passionate to dry, sad kisses. You have them all.

Make your custom kiss and send. Kissing booth, gear, tips, games, chat, astrology……the list is endless. It is ideal thing for Romance, passion & love. Just get it friends. And hey, if any girls reading this likes this website then don’t forget to send my share of a sweet, sultry, hot, passionate kiss. Am I becoming a mischief!!!

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

iLoveLanguages - Quality links of the great translation wesbites

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/ is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you’re looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you’ve heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.

Formerly known as The Human-Languages Page, iLoveLanguages is still your biggest and best guide to language-related Web sites.

I really like this website because it has almost the best links which you need for the translation or language oriented needs. Fabulous website with very easy interface and quick search up for the links. So go ahead and express your mind to the world in the language they understand.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

The 1st mother of Bollywood - IndiaFM

http://www.indiafm.com/ was the first website ever related to the issues and things of the Bollywood.High Quality wallpapers have always been its USP. I used to see the high quality wallpapers from this website in almost every homes desktop. Now it has developed a lot.

It now provide with excellent latest features like:-

• Wallpapers
• Movie Reviews
• Ringtones
• Star Birthdays
• Previews
• Hottest & Latest news of happenings in Bolly
• Music and etc….

To sum up, the tagline says it all ‘India’s premier Bollywood Portal.’ A great place to be in, a place which has been the pioneer on the net for Bollywood.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

An Idea can change your life- DreamSCat

http://www.dreamscat.com/

Have you got an idea?
If “yes”, then share it here! No matter how crazy it is! If “no”, then browse and read ideas and dreams. And if you have it in yourself then get going. Pick up and idea and convert them in reality. May be you get clicked.

Scattered over 15 categories it is a great place to put in what you ever thought of doing or getting done. From science to finance and from lifestyle to romance it has every idea and dream ever thought of by other earthlings. Read what other people have thought but are somehow unable to do so.

Belive me ‘An idea can change your life.’

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

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Justdial - Local Services defined.

Just read the TIMES OF INDIA, 18/03/07, Page-9 and visited www.justdial.com. Tried out a few searches and to my surprise I never knew that a branch of The Bank of Maharashtra exists in my area, i.e. Howrah. I was also surprised to see so many banks in my area and also so many of the courier services. I would really recommend this website.

Just Dial is a site designed to cater to people who are looking for results in a particular city or area. Basically they have started with 14 cities. Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Ernakulum, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Vadodara and Vishakhapatanam to name.

In addition to the results, you get a host of additional information such as price ranges and links to booking tickets online. In the case of hotels they even promise to get menu cards soon. And seeing the statistics declared by the website I must say they are really going fast and spreading equally quick. Hope they'll get every major service and thing sooner.

So, just get in and get going. Get local with a clicl of the mouse.

Its only words & words are all I have…

http://www.lovepoemsandquotes.com/

Friends the name of the website says it all. It has an elaborate collection of poems & quotations and romantic ideas too. Allow me to welcome you all to the healthy and fresh world of LOVE. Well i am not talking anything silly. In this computer and mobile age who cares to write or express through words. But get me straight that written words are easier than words said. Try it once and in the next second you will be praising me.

This is the right place if you are looking for love poems or love quotes. Just browse over the chosen few categories and you are bound to get what you want.

• Love Poems
• Love Quotes
• Famous Quotes
• Friendship Poems
• Friendship Quotes
• Inspirational Quotes
• Poetry Contest
• Top Monthly Poetry
• Romantic Ideas
• Wedding Section
• Odds And Ends

You will be happy to know that this site focuses on love poems and quotes that are positive, romantic, and easy to understand. While humorous and negative words on love have their place, they are beyond the scope of this site.

“It’s only words and words are all I have to take your heart away.”

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Love, Love, Love….Its all in all…….

http://www.lovingyou.com/

Lovingyou.com is the most complete source of relationship advice, support and entertainment available online! Within the virtual pages of Lovingyou.com you can get love advice, post a sweet nothing to your partner, talk to members about specific problems, find the perfect gift, send an eCard, write or read love poems, share your love story, read internationally published articles on every topic from singlehood to divorce, find an online love, join a support group and SO MUCH MORE!

I presume that it is the largest dynamic website which lets you get straight with your loved ones. It has everything one can think of in the context of love. Everything here is its USP. I specially liked the e-cards. Beautifully made they are really cool and hot. You’ll love spending time here.

See the categories and you are bound to get surprised:-

IDEAS
Romantic Ideas
Romance Calendar
Love Games
Top 10 Lists
Romantic Recipes
Craft Ideas
Love Nest
Romantic Travel
Everyday Romance
Date Night Ideas
Love & Sex
Gift Ideas

ADVICE TOPICS
Ask Love
Breaking Up
Dating
Long Distance
Communication
Time Together
Love Tasks
Affairs
Self-Love/Help
Couples
Marriage
Divorce
INSPIRATION
Printable eBooks
Free eCards
Love Poems
Love Letters
Love Quotes
Love Stories
Love Quizzes
Lovescopes
Personals
Free Printables
Free Newsletters
UPDATED DAILY
Idea of the Day
Poem of the Day
Quote of the Day
Love Advice
Message Boards
Lovescopes

SUPPORT GROUPS
Military Spouses
Online Love
Age Gaps
Interracial

Just enjoy and if you felt I have given you a link to a great place on the net then please drop a comment or two. And yes don’t forget to tell others also about our blog.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Your search for image stops here: Getty Images

Website address
http://www.gettyimages.com/

Tagline
The world’s leading provider of imagery, films and digital services.

About
Getty Images offers royalty free and copy righted image. Getty Images is the best in its field. “The world’s most powerful distribution platform, gettyimages.com enables you to search, purchase and download the finest photography, illustration, film and editorial images; commission world-class assignment photography; and efficiently create, manage, share and distribute your marketing materials - all in one place. Gettyimages.com serves an average of 2.3 million unique visitors each month with over 2.3 billion thumbnails and 161 million page views. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s visual content is delivered digitally.”

Registered Users
There are many advantages, if you become a registered user. Firstly and most important for people who are looking for free images, the Getty Images Logo (watermark) will be removed from images. Secondly, I don’t know if they still do it, but when I first registered, they sent me several big posters via mail. It’s worth it, believe me. Thirdly, you can “add items to your shopping cart, images to your Lightboxes, film clips to your Clipbins, and submit image and film research requests.”

Products and Services

• Creative Imagery (Contemporary photography, illustration and images.
• Film (Commercial quality cinematography)
• Editorial Imagery (News, sports, and entertainment.)
• Photo Assignments (Award-winning photographers covering every style of assignment photography.)
• Media Management (On-demand digital asset management)

Image Collections wholly owned by Getty Images: All Sport, Digital Vision, Hulton Archive, Image Bank, Photo Disc, Photographer’s Choice, Reportage, Stone +, Stone, and Taxi.

Image Collections distributed by Getty Images: 3D Clinic, Altrendo Images, America 24/7, Asia Images, Aurora, Beateworks, Blend, Botanica, Brand X Pictures, The Bridgeman Art Library, Deximage, DK Stock, DK Images, Food Collection, Food Pix, F Stop, Gallo Images, Illustration Works, Image 100, Image Source, Lonely Planet Images, Medio Images, National Geographic, Panoramic Images, Photo Alto Agency, Pix Land, Queerstock, Robert Harding’s World Imagery, Rubberball Productions, Samba Photos, Science Faction, Stockimage, Stockbyte, Stockdisc, Thinkstock, Time & Life Pictures, Visuals Unlimited, and Workbook Stock.

Posted by: Kuldip Garhwal

Wikipedia, the free ENCYCLOPEDIA

http://en.wikipedia.org/ is the communal encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link.
This site is terrific if you desire knowledge. Just type what you are looking for and presto you get information, pictures, links to the topic. Even as you read the information, there are hyperlinks incase you want more information on a particular topic in the information provided.

I love the format of this site. I was actually shocked to know that this site is actually updated with information by people like YOU and ME. In other words, they don’t have a department or staff who update the knowledge base of the site. The only thing the staff does is verify the information updated by you.

The only drawback of this site is the search is not strong enough. For instance: I wanted to search the ‘THRILLER’ video from Michael Jackson. No matter what I typed with the word Thriller, it never led me to information on Michael Jackson’s thriller video. BUT, when I typed Michael Jackson, it gave me all the information on the king of pop and from there I was able to click on a link related to his thriller video.

Still I would say it is a great resource of knowledge. It goes deep into the search you made and gives you the maximum information needed. I find no harm in trying a hand on this website.

Wikiquote is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

Wiktionary - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en:Main_Page
Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikiquote - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
Quotations & Proverbs

Wikibooks - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/en:Main_Page
Free textbooks and manuals

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The free encyclopedia

Wikisource - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page:English
Free source documents

Wikispecies - http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Directory of species

Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free content news source

Meta-Wiki - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikimedia project coordination

Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Shared media repository

Contributed by: Anonymous, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

All for Hollywood and Bollywood - The past n the present

http://www.imdb.com/ is the best site on the internet for information on movies from past till present.

-This site will give you:
-Latest hollywood news and gossips
-Reviews on latest releases and movies yet to be released
-Top 10 movies in the Box office
-Biography of actors and actresses.

This site claims to be the largest internet movie database and THEY ARE NOT KIDDING.You will even get reviews and information on BOLLYWOOD MOVIES AND STARS TOO. So you know how good this site. It will give you reviews, information, star cast, story line, GOOF UPS, ERRORS of any film you search.

You can even go the links of trailers to latest releases through this website.. happy MOVIEing…

Contributed by: Anonymous, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

I will not show my IP address to anyone of you!!!!

http://www.anonymouse.org - This site is best if you do not want your IP address detected while visiting a website. I am still not sure how helpful it is but I try and use this when I am visiting websites which allow for password hacking so that my ip address is not on display amongst hackers atleast.

This link will also help you if you are working in office and your office has installed a cyber software for disallowing access to certain links. You can actually visit the links BANNED in your office.

Just go to this site and type in the box the site you wish to visit and YOUR THEREEEE…Go great guns friends. Now you have got a CHEAT TOOL….

This is what the website has to say. Its sure to make your concept and fear right in place. “Many mice surf the web under the illusion that their actions are private and anonymous. Unfortunately, it isn’t so. Every time you visit a site for a piece of cheese, you leave a calling card that reveals where you’re coming from, what kind of computer you have, and other details. And many cats keep logs of all your visits, so that they can catch you! This service allows you to surf the web without revealing any personal information. It is fast, it is easy, and it is free!”

Contributed by: Anonymous, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, GTalk - Chat without the messenger

http://www.meebo.com - Another site for office users.

Has your office banned chats like Yahoo, MSN, AIM or ICQ, Jabber or GTalk? Of course since they have banned then the system engineers have even not installed these chat clients on your machine right? No problem. Just visit ‘Meebo’ and you have all these chat clients opening inside the same browser. Just type your user name and password like you would do under the chat client you wish to chat with.

Once logged in, the page refreshes and inside the internet window itself, you will be able to see your chat client and chat. Chat windows open inside the browser itself so you have complete privacy and what’s more it can’t be tracked by the office cyber software.. yipeeeee.

I must say this is the greatest website. Above all no need to download and install the particular messengers. What do you say. Isn’t it a noble idea. Terriffic. I just can’t explain in words. Now chatting for all.

Contributed by: Anonymous, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

The Great Indian Movie Club !!!

http://www.indianmoviesclub.com/ - One of the coolest site on net about indian music and movies. This website has a forum which is free for anyone to join. Once you become a member you have access to its huge huge collection of latest hindi songs, movies-yes u saw it right the first time. U can actually download movies (all the latest ones). You can post request for your favourite music which you have not been getting it online. Moreover this site has links to soaps and serials as well. Some of the famous ones in the site are Great Indian Laughter Challenge, Indian Idol, and lots more.

This site is a must visit for anyone who want to download the lattest of anything related to bollywood. This site also has a community for english soaps n movies as well. Well I havn’t tried it out yet. Guess, it too must be hosting some good collection. Spanning over a varied categories it has everything you ever wanted from a forum. Movies, music, pics….u have them all.

Cool & Good forum and has more than 40k members. The page is beautifully designed. The first page is very heavily designed so give it time to load. Pop-up do come oftenly and that too very bad ones. So try using a Pop-up blocker lest your parents see you enjoying them. Contains about 20 categories.

Contributed by: Amit Goel, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Too COOL to believe!

http://www.cooltoad.com/

This is one site which is really COOL. It offers you a whole lot of stuff and that too FREE of cost.

Services

• SEARCH- Search everything over the internet.
• EMAIL- Free 100 MB email space.
• AUCTION- Free auction services.No fees for listing, relisting or final values.
• MUSIC-Download free MP3 music from various catagories. You can as well upload your own music files for others to download.
• WEBPAGES-Create your homepage for free on their server. You can also create an auction site with their pre-made theme.

USP
Everything on this site is FREE and the server is also pretty reliable and fast.

by: Vivek Toshniwal

Participate! Spread the word! Start your own free petition today!

http://www.petitiononline.com/

The idea of PetitionOnline.com is to facilitate grassroots democracy, using independent petition hosting system to give a high level of integrity to the process. The site believes that in a world with many powerful organizations, both private and governmental, responsible forms of collective grassroots expression are more important than ever and that the Internet can facilitate this kind of participatory democracy.

With PetitionOnline, you write the text of your petition and submit it, using a simple online form. Then you promote your petition to get signers, and you deliver your petition when you feel it is ready. The site provides a free Internet petition system that makes the petitioning process easy.

The free online petition system automatically formats your petition for the web, hosts the petition here on fast, secure web servers, and collects, displays, and maintains the all-important petition signatures.

USP
The ancient methods of grassroots democracy, combined with the
latest digital networked communications, running live and free 24 hours a day.

So, have your word and spread the message!

Posted by: Vivek Toshniwal

Insanity at its best - PagalGuy

http://www.pagalguy.com

True to its claim, PagalGuy is India’s largets MBA resource,articles and forum. Its tagline “Insanely Different” really makes it one of its kind.

With over 50,000 members, this site provides all the guidance any MBA aspirant needs. The gamut of members include prospective students as well as students who are already pursuing or have already pursued their courses at various B-Schools in India and across the globe. Any information regarding B-School, be it results or any events, appears on this website at the earliest. From Live coverage to articles to pictures - see the insides of the finest business school fests in India only on PagalGuy.

Other than study related stuff, the forum also provides other Interactive Topics on the site where members can share their views, perspectives and experiences with other members and non-members.

USP:

One of its kind, MBA Forum & Resource Centre

by: Vivek Toshniwal

Photo.net – Photography @ its all time best….

http://photo.net/

Well the name of the website speaks it all. Cool website of stock photography. Lakhs of photographs to filter and search from. Either search by popularity or by the photographer. You have few options but massive and mind blowing results. You can spend your whole life downloading those lovely pictures. Before you go for some serious work on the images available there see for the copyright and policy problems.

Great one stop website for all your imaging needs and jobs. Handy interface also. It has got reviews and tutorials on the latest gadgets, cameras, and developments in the photography industry. Probably it has got a forum also. I think you’ll be able to fulfill all your photography needs here.

So go shooting and a cheesy clicking:)

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Indian-magic – The magic of India Glamour – Models + Actresses

http://www.indian-magic.com/

Did you ever imagine of a place where you can see literally every pose given by any Indian actress or model of your dream. Those naughty posters which you missed out as wallpapers. Those hot pictures from the scenes of their movies. Practically thinking & speaking of a place where you find every poster or picture of an Indian actress or model given & taken in photo shoots, private photo shoots, events & movies.

Yes Indian-Magic is the place to be. 1000s of pictures in 100s of galleries. You name her and they have her. The start of you dreams.

It’s a cool website. I haven’t seen the design changed since last 5 years. Its changed now when i am writing this blog. Every page welcomes you with 2-3 pop-ups. So you better know what to do. Very easy navigation. Uses frames & javascripts. Takes some little time to load. You can easily find the names and the galleries. Every day a picture is added which is called ‘PICTURE OF THE DAY.’ Same goes with the week also. The website is updated with almost 25-40 pictures every week.

So get ready to feel the heat!!!!!

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Do you want to know How the Stuff around you Work ?????

http://www.howstuffworks.com

Did you ever wonder :

-How the GRAMMYs Work?
-How Swearing Works?
-How Cold Heat Works?

No, isn’t it. Well, here is a website which will answer even why you have to sneeze and now it will even tell you why there are so many channels, etc, etc. The very first page will open thousands of avenues for you. And you will just keep asking for more. Isn’t it fabulous. Humans will make history and create histories I guess.

HowStuffWorks is an online publishing company widely recognized as a leading source for clear, unbiased, reliable explanations of how everything actually works. With thousands of articles, content features and illustrations populating ten different content channels, HowStuffWorks.com attracts millions of unique visitors each month.

Link Contributed by: Amit Singhania, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

SantaBanta - Lolly, Bolly, Holly……all in one.

http://www.santabanta.com

A huge glamorous website. Before moving any further lets look at its USP:-

WALLPAPERS – Bollywood, Hollywood, Lollywood, music, sports, religious & everything you can think in terms of desktop wallpapers is here. From Miss India to Miss Universe it has galleries for all. A very huge database of them and categorized in a very appropriate manner. It is updated oftenly. If Indiafm.com was the story of the yester years then Santabanta.com is the current hot story. All in all I must say it is a must visit website.

E-CARDS – This section is my favourite. E-greetings found here show how creative people at Santabanta are. Beautiful collection and I am sure you’ll fall in love with them too.

LATEST HAPPENINGS – It has all the latest and bold happenings listed from from the world of Hollywood & also from Bollywood. There are galleries for the latest big events happening in the glam world.

SMS – It has a small sms collection page also.

RECIPIES – You can find some cool recipes out here to try your taste buds at.

It’s a heavy designed or script generated website with advertisements almost everywhere. Well that is really needed today in order to generate fund so that the contents can be provided to you and me for free. Pages are heavy. At this website you will have to bear with the pop-ups at every page. Either keep a pop-up blocker handy or upgrade your system with Windows XPSP2. give it time to load. Don’t get confused by the 1000s of links in the very 1st page itself.

Innumerous high-quality wallpapers. From Lollywood (Pakistan) to Hollywood, from Pageant & fashion shows to sports, from males to females this website has them all. It is Updated regularly. E-cards(e-greetings) section is a must watch. Superb flash animated cards with the best designing ever. Spicy Hollywood & bollywood news. Cool jokes and cool contests sometimes.

So friends, I have given you the way. Hope you can find your destination now.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Secrets of Meeting, Dating, and Attracting Women

http://www.sosuave.com

This is the ultimate site which MEN had always wanted. A perfect guide for your romance trip. On this site you get answers to all your personal unanswered queries or things you always wondered were unanswerable. It provides you with Romance Tips and other host of articles. The site also has a discussion forum where you can share and interact with members around the world.

This site is full of information for you guys out there that like to play the game.

Just remember that we can usually play it better…

Posted by: Vivek Toshniwal

FILE Searching - Music, Images, Videos, Drivers !!!

http://www.filesearching.com/

From DvD ripped Metallica Videos to Latest ISOs of all available OSes to Innumerable list of Movies, Filesearching.com has everything for you.Filesearching.com, has a database comprising of some real cool ftp servers(mostly Russian) that are mostly on and provide you with with almost everything. The advance search tab allows you to refine your search and supports some useful features like size specs, filetype, HIde/Unhide Unix system related files etc.

It has a huge database of drivers also categorised under-

• Video
• Sound
• CD ROM
• Scanner
• BIOS
• Printer
• Modem
• Monitor
• Network
• SCSI, IDE, RAID

So you see how helpful this website is. You can say it is another form of a search engine designed and presented and helpful in a very different way.

Give it a try!!!

Contributed by: Prateek Gupta, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Reunite with your old school friends now !!!

http://www.batchmates.com

This website is for :

-Schools & Colleges
-Corporates
-Civil Services
-Professional Institutions
-Armed Forces
Cutting across geographical boundaries and bringing the far-flung corners of the world closer, Batchmates.com is the premier portal with the perfect platform for old school and college friends to stay in touch. Batchmates.com builds on that unshakable nostalgia of yesteryears with the ambitious aim of not just re-uniting school and college friends but friends worldwide from across workplaces & armed forces. Batchmates.com helps to locate your school friends and strengthens this bond by offering easy means to keep in touch with each other - 4 ever - through Web reunions, on-line messaging, buddy lists etc.

Some of the Priveleges enjoyed by the registered members are :

-My Page
-Mailbox
-Subscriptions
-Buddy List
-Reminder Service
-Invite Friends - WIN
-Batchmates Times
-Lost & Found
-Indian Institutes
-US Institutes
-Featured Institute
-Find a Date
-Photo Gallery
-Batchmates Quotes
-Bulletin Board
-Facebook
-ECards

The website is basically divided in these main headings :

*FRIENDS
*GIFTING
*DATING
*BM TIMES
*ECARDS
As of today on 10th February, 2006 the website claims to have 1490700+ members, in 193200+ schools & colleges, 9600+ workplaces.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Wondering which new movie to watch? Visit Rotten Tomatoes

http://www.rottentomatoes.com

Tagline
Movies and Games, Reviews and Previews

About
Wondering which new movie to watch this weekend? Want to know which movie did great at the box office and which received rotten tomatoes? Visit RottenTomatoes.com. This site not only tells you about movies but it also has lot of game reviews and previews.

Each movie listed at Rotten Tomatoes has a snippet, a review, trailer(s), clip(s), and a forum and news section of its own. You can also find out how big of an opening a particular movie received in terms of US$ or how much money did it make at the box office.

You can even buy movie tickets and posters, DVDs, games, and more from the Rotten Tomatoes online shop.

Rotten Tomatoes Recommendation Tools

• Certified Fresh - When a film has 40 reviews, 5 of which are from Cream of the Crop critics, and has a Tomatometer of 75% or higher, it is Certified Fresh by Rotten Tomatoes. It stays “Certified Fresh” unless the film falls below 60%.
  
• TomatoPicker - Browse through our database of over 100,000 movie titles. Filter your results by Tomatometer, genre, subgenre, mpaa rating, decade, year, and/or keywords.
  
• Top Movies - Here, we offer the best reviewed movies of Rotten Tomatoes and the winners from various Awards categories, such as the Oscars and Golden Globes.

Why the site is called ‘Rotten Tomatoes’?
”Back in the days of the open theaters, when a play was particularly atrocious, the audience expressed their dissatisfaction by not only booing and hissing at the stage, but throwing whatever was at hand — vegetables and fruits included. Hence the name Rotten Tomatoes.”

Posted by: Kuldip Garhwal (Website suggested to me by Robyn Barker)

Get ready to FALL IN LOVE this season!!!

http://luvualways.8m.com/

I know this will sound like blowing my own trumpet but as VALENTINES’ DAY is approaching I need to tell you about this great website which I made for only you people who believe in love. I think it will be very useful to you all who are into this and love is a part of their life. Just imagine a website made totally by a single individual person which has the following huge content:

-6 touchy Love stories
-7 pages of Love stanzas
-17 pages of Love gallery - Having over 1000 pictures, posters, wallpapers.
-140 Love poems
-18 pages of Love lines
-7 pages of Love proverbs - 100s of them
-17 pages of Love Quotes - 1000s of them
-29 Love Fun-n-Truth
-9 Love song lyrics
-23 of the feedbacks received till date
-44 chapters of Love Basics

What do you think about all this? Imaginary isn’t it. But friends it was out of my passion and love for someone special that I made this website.

The first page takes time to load because of a hot, passionate picture which makes the door to enter the main website. Once inside things work out faster. Please bear with the geocities add. When I made this website I knew about only the Geocities.com as the free website hosting website. The navigation sstem is also a unique and good one. The main USP is the Picture gallery which is perhaps the largest of its kind.

So ready to FALL IN LOVE this season. Do you still believe me or not!!!

by: Yogesh Goel

It is all about touching lives, bridging distances, and building bonds!!!

http://www.123greetings.com

Friends this is that website which needs no introduction and not left untouched by any one of you. I would say it has the largest and the best collection of e-cards. You are sure to wonder that why you never knew that every day in the year has a special occasion. All main occasions and festivals are listed. Even the ones you never knew existed on this earth.

This is what the website has to say. I would say it is really a very humble speak out to people who want to know about them.

“123Greetings.com is all about touching lives, bridging distances, healing rifts and building bonds. Users celebrate their favorite festivals & events, as well as important personal milestones, together with everyday ‘for-no-particular-reason’ fun ecards - moments of fun & smiles that make people feel alive.

We want our visitors to share the joy we experience in creating our ecards. We make card-sending an easy, enjoyable, looked-forward-to experience. While posting a note can be a chore, 123Greetings.com offers enjoyable, interactive card-sending sessions.

123Greetings.com has a gallery of over 25,000 ecards & covers over 2,000 festivals/ events. The universal appeal of greeting cards attracts a wide cross-section of the online population. Our sponsors have the advantage of addressing the mass market as well the minor niche groups.

Online Greeting cards are sent by users of all generations including the Generation Y i.e. the 12-17 year olds, the consumers of tomorrow, as well as the important Generation E, i.e. the technology smart active consumer.

Women continue to be dominant greeting card users. A NetSearch survey suggests that women, who account for 70% of all retail sales, will use the Internet while deciding what and what not to buy.”

Believe me they are the best in this field and know their job very well. So friends start clicking and start sending your hearts desire to whoever you want.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

First multilingual search capabilities on the Internet.

http://www.altavista.com

After Google you must have all heard about this search engine. It is good and very result oriented also. Check its features to see what it has to provide for u all.

HIGHLIGHTS
• Delivers Internet’s first Web index (1995)
• First multilingual search capabilities on the Internet
• First Internet search engine to launch Image, Audio, and Video search capabilities
• Most advanced Internet search features and capabilities: multimedia search, translation & language recognition, and specialty search
• Awarded 61 search-related patents, more than any other Internet search company

All in all I would say that you have one more search engine in hand to satisfy your search needs.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Lots of features to get search from!!!

http://www.ask.com

AskJeeves is yet another cool search engine which has unlimited options for your search fundas. Just look down for the list f features which it has to provide.

Advanced Web Search
-Advanced Search features allow you to specify the type of web results you want. Try it out and see what the Advanced Search features can do for you.

Basic Site Preferences
-Personalize your search experience by defining how you would like your search results displayed.

Binoculars Site Preview
-If you have broadband and want to avoid unnecessary trips between your search results and the destination sites you are seeking, then the Binoculars site preview tool is for you. This feature allows searchers to preview websites by simply mousing over the binoculars icon within their search results. Easily figure out if you’ve found the site you’re looking for without having to leave Ask.com-saving both time and energy. This feature is only available for broadband-including DSL and Cable high-speed connections.
Return to Top

Conversions
-Use our simple conversion calculator to find practical information such as world currency, time, temperature, data, weight, length, area, and even cooking/volume conversions.

Dictionary Search
-Find quick definitions or easily search online dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri and more.

Famous People Search
-Find information about your favorite celebrities and historical figures.

Map Search
-Find maps of any location in the U.S. or Canada along with easy driving directions.

Movie Search
-Find the latest information for upcoming and recent film releases.

News Search
-Find the latest news stories from around the world.

Picture Search
-Find photos and images of thousands of items, people and places.

Popular Searches: Jeeves IQ
-Find the most popular search terms based on millions of Ask.com searches. Learn more about your fellow searchers’ tastes, trends and habits.

Product Search
-Find products based on reviews, features, price, and store location.

Smart Answers
-Smart Answers provide a direct and innovative approach to delivering the information you are trying to find. Located at the top of your web search results, Smart Answers are contextual search units that can provide you with direct access to relevant information, search features & deep-linked web resources.

Spell Check
Find correct spelling suggestions and ensure the best search results possible.

Stock Search
-Find up-to-date stock quotes for all publicly traded US companies on all US markets.

Weather Search
-Find current weather conditions or 7-day forecast information for over 130,000 cities around the world.

White Pages Search
-Find white page listings covering the entire U.S. without opening a phone book or calling an operator.

So people get going and make your senses running for what you want.

by: Yogesh Goel

Never miss a song- Just Sing Along

http://www.hindilyrix.com

Just what the name suggests, this site contains a comprehensive database of lyrics of hindi songs. The site claims to be the world’s largest indian lyrics site which might really be true because your search for lyrics on this site never gives you void results. The site provides the lyrics of not just hindi film songs but also album lyrics, ghazal, bhajans, qawwalis and other types of song lyrics.

The site also hosts song notations and bollywood wallpapers alongwith profiles of singers, lyricists and musicians.

Users can as well submit lyrics which they have but the site might not have.

So the next time you want to mug up a song or don’t understand the lyrics of a song just log on to HindiLyrix.

Posted by: Vivek Toshniwal

An archive of disturbing illustration - Rotten dot com

www.rotten.com

Tagline(s)
An archive of disturbing illustration.
When hell is full, the dead will walk the earth.
Pure evil since 1996.

About
Rotten.com collects images and information from many sources to present the viewer with a truly unpleasant experience.

A Rotten.com user
”This site is self-explanatory. IT IS ROTTEN. But, why is it one of my favorite sites? Because they are great in what they are. Posting rotten, dirty, gross stuff which would make you feel like puking. Visit this site if you are in the mood for adventure. I love the format of this site, very simple, easy to understand links. You immediately know what you are going to see before you click on a link and the site hasn’t changed since the past four years. Warning: you need to have a strong stomach if you are going to browse through this entire site.”

Posted by Kuldip Garhwal

250 newspapers from 55 countries – One Website

http://www.pressdisplay.com/

Tagline
Newspaper replicas from around the world.

About
”…Original format, layout and pagination… PressDisplay™ delivers the world’s leading newspapers to you before they appear on newsstands in their home countries.”
You can search for your choice of newspaper by country, by language or by alphabetical order. The website also features offline reading facilities.

SmartNavigation takes online newspaper reading to a new level with sophisticated digital tools:

• Table of Contents - Section by section list of articles
• Article Text View - Easy cut and paste
• Article Jumps - Quick link to the rest of the article
• Instant Translation - Ten major foreign languages available

PressReader allows readers to download newspaper and magazine issues into their own personal library for later offline reading. The PressReader is an easy way to store favorite publications and is available to all paid subscribers.

Free Trial
Press Display allows first-time visitors to the site to try reading newspapers and magazines with their service for free for a week, without having to worry about any associated costs

Subscription
You can subscribe to PressDisplay.com with value-packed plans that best fit your reading habits. Click here for PressDisplay.com Subscription Plans Information

Posted by Kuldip Garhwal

Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia: all at Reference.com

www.reference.com
www.dictionary.com
www.thesaurus.com

About
Reference.com offers a free online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Services offered by Reference.com
Almanac
Almanacs
Atlas
Atlases & maps
Business
Business & financial resources
Dictionary
Look up English words, computer terms, place names, biblical names, and US ZIP codes
Legal
Legal resources
Literature
Literary texts & resources
Medical
Medical & health resources
People Search
Find a Person, Reverse Phone, Reverse Address, Area & ZIP/Postal Codes
Thesaurus
Find synonyms & antonyms
Web Directory
Directory of Web sites
Feature Articles
-Articles of interest
-Reference.com’s Most Looked-Up Words in 2005
-2005 Kashmir Earthquake
On This Day
-Holidays, historical events, birthdays and more
-View today’s events
-Browse every day of the year
-Subscribe to the mailing list
-Add the RSS Feed

by Kuldip Garhwal

Slash your long-distance bills, use Skype

http://www.skype.com/

Tagline
The whole world can talk for free.

About
It is a free-to-use software for internet telephony. With SkypeOut (paid service) you can call anyone on any phone anywhere in the world, at local rates. SkypeIn is a phone number your friends can call. You answer in Skype. SkypeVoicemail takes your calls when you’re busy or offline. There is even a store in the website which lets you buy Skype related products.

You can download Skype for:

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux
• Pocket PC

Total downloads 254, 618,985 till now.

Skype’s Self Review
Skype is software that enables you to make free calls anywhere in the world. Skype uses innovative P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you with other users. It offers several features, including SkypeOut calling from Skype to regular and mobile phones worldwide, conference calling, and secure file transferring. Skype calls have better sound quality than your regular phone and are highly secure, with end-to-end encryption.

Download.com’s Editor’s Review of Skype
Getting in touch with friends and family is easy with this Internet telephone software, but the functionality is conditional. Skype offers a graphically pleasing interface that’s much like a chat program. To make calls, you’ll need to create a contact list of friends and family or use the phone-like interface to dial people directly. You also can access a pull-down menu for painless conference calls of up to four people. To make free calls, both parties will need to have the Skype software installed. To call regular phones, you’ll need to sign up for a plan with SkypeOut, the developer’s paid service that offers cheap by-the-minute calling. We like the intuitive chat-like interface of Skype and we were surprised at the excellent sound quality, even with regular desktop speakers. Similar to a chat client, you can set your availability status, but we also would like to see a missed call indicator or, better yet, some form of voice mail. Overall, we think Skype is a strong contender in the Internet Telephony category, and anyone who’s interested in talking for free should give it a try. For international callers who have computers, this program is a no-brainer solution for long-distance bills.

Posted by Kuldip Garhwal (Recommended by Sybille Thierry)

Everything is not yet FREE on the NET!

https://mediamax.streamload.com

There are a lot of websites providing online storage space for files, videos, music. Most of them give a trail 15 day membership after which things are chargeable. But there’s this site which claims free online storage space of 25 GB. Sounds unbelievable – in fact, you don’t need to believe it because I found a lot of loopholes while reviewing this site so I wanted to make other users aware of it all before you register and fall in the trap.

The loopholes are as below:

• The site is ambiguous about its price plans and features. There are 2 registration pages at different locations, each showcasing different Price Plans and Features.
https://www.streamload.com/Account/CreateNewAccount.asp?userName=xyz
https://mediamax.streamload.com/home/pricing.aspx

The first link has 5 plans with different prices and the second link has 3 plans which are not the same as any of the 5 previously mentioned ones.

• On registration, the site doesn’t actually provide 25GB but just 500 MB space. Moreover, there’s a restricted bandwidth too. At the same point of time, the file size limit is 25 MBs, so you cannot really share Videos as claimed by the site on its Homepage.

After coming across all these discrepancies, no one would really trust the genuineness of the site and for that matter would anyone jeopardize the safety and security of his important files?

No doubt, the server is quite fast and the file management is also user friendly but then, you don’t really get what you want!

by: Vivek Toshniwal

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